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Re: Need help African Jungle Terrain

When I made bases for a bag of cake decoration palm trees, I put blobs of hot glue on a cookie sheet and stuck the palm trees in the blobs. It worked quite well for my purposes. I wouldn't use them in a beautiful diorama, but for putting on the table for gaming or informal toy soldier play, it works fine.

The hot glue popped right off the cookie sheet with little effort. You can apply the hot glue in irregular patterns or carve the cooled glue blobs a bit so they are not so symmetrical. I was lazy so I just painted the glue bases but it would be easy to apply flocking.

At an earlier time, I used sculpey to make bases for cake decoration bushes but this involved much more bother than the hot glue method and the result was less durable.

Re: Need help African Jungle Terrain

There are some photos on Hat ets of my efforts, I use normal diy filler/plaster like polyfilla, allow it to dry, paint it with a base colour , then use mig African earth to top it, allow it to dry , then watered down pva mix all over, then use scatter, job done. eg Ruga ruga test shots.

Re: Need help African Jungle Terrain

Do you have a link to where you got the 'plants' from Bob?

I made some jungle terrain using fake plants, I based them on old cds using a blob of epoxy putty onto the surface of the disc.

Recently I bought some 'forest bases' - two shapes of thin laser-cut mdf, both the same shape (the bottom one slighty larger by a milimetet or so}. The top sheet has three 60mm diam. holes cut in it and three 60mm discs are supplied with it.

This allows a woodland base but you can also remove the trees to place troops on the base.

I got mine from 4Ground Miniatures http://www.4ground.co.uk/index.php
though I couldn't see them on the web-site when I looked.

Re: Need help African Jungle Terrain


Scroll down to plastic plants made by ZOO MED. One store canceled my order because this line of product is no longer being made so buy them now if you need them. I bought 5 bags of plants to make clumps of trees for a Darkest Africa wargame so I need affordable / easy to make bases.

https://www.joshsfrogs.com/search/page/2?q=zoo+med

Thanks,

Bob

Re: Need help African Jungle Terrain

Thanks for that.

You might find this useful as well,

http://www.exo-terra.com/en/products/sand_mat.php

In effect its a mat of sand and gravel glued to a fabric base for terrariums.

I use it cut into irregular shapes as rough terrain areas, though I do give it a coat of paint to consolidate the sand and match other terrain features. I guess you wouldn't need to paint it if you didn't want to.